Sunday Funnies: A Fresh New Year with Diabetes?

New Year’s is always a great time for a fresh start with your diabetes, in one form or another… Thanks to cartoonist Mike Durbin, a type 2 advocate who blogs at My Diabetic Heart and is actually marking the 5th anniversary of his D-diagnos…

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Thinking Twice About Using Apidra in Insulin Pumps Anyone going on a brand spanking new insulin pump is probably filled with anticipation and excitement, but there's always a little bit of trepidation when it comes to a new piece of medical technology. Will it meet my needs? Will I like using it? ......
Yoga: Standing Warrior Series Today's practice is a standing warrior series. Some benefits of each pose in the series are: Standing at Attention/ Mt. Pose Benefits: can create a sense of grounding and centering. Can increase focus, improve balance and draw your awareness inward. Warrior II Benefits: can increase focus, strength, and presence. Can create an opportunity to track the fluctuations of the mind and a possibility to invite the breath to calm the mind. Extended Side Angle- Variation Benefits: energizing, strengthening, grounding, heart opener. Reverse Warrior Benefits: stretches sides of torso and arms, opens the hips, strengthening, opening. Click...
Living In the Kingdom of the Sick (with Book Giveaway!) Although many people with diabetes tend to think just in terms of our own community, PWDs are actually part of a much larger community of folks with chronic illnesses; we are residents of the "Kingdom of the Sick," a term coined by cancer patient ......
Four Years: Finding Rainbows in the Storm December 14, 2010, a day that forever changed my life and ultimately prepared me for what life had in store. Fours years ago I would have never guessed that my eating disorder would be the greatest gift in what would ultimately become the most traumatic time in my life. This year my world suddenly and drastically changed on […]...
D-Mom Says: "Kids First, Diabetes Second" It is always exciting to see one of "our own" - a diabetes blogger and advocate - find success offline. That's why we're thrilled to announce the publication of a new book, Kids First, Diabetes Second by Leighann Calentine, the author of D-Mom Blo......